For those of you using your phone in an unfamilar part of town, while traveling or just in generally might like the new Google Local - the only way to explain it is like having a built in GPS system in your car and searching for the closest whatever (American Restaurant or Walgreens Pharmacy) - you simply tell it what you want and then narrow down the results such as Restaurant then type and it displays ever one within a certain mile range.
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The examples also give ways to plan upcoming trips by researching POIs, staring them, then using the "Starred Places" to pull them up and search through results when you are at your travel destination."To access these features on your mobile device, go to www.google.com/m/local, or just click on the Local tab on www.google.com.
The product is available in the US and China, with more regions coming soon."
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You came through to the list - and yes Google does (and has for quite a while) done local searches with zip code or city, state - the difference between that and Google Local is that not only do you need not enter or know the city/zip code, the results are in real time to your location whereas a zip code can cover a 5 sq mile area, the "local" searches can return results within half a mile of your current location via GPS...
If I simply bring up Google Maps on the iPhone, any enter "McDonalds", it shows me the 10 McD's nearest my location with the nearest one highlighted.
No "near", no Google Local....
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Out of all the apps that search for points of interest, I find the white pages app to be my favorite. It works great, bringing up the phone number, directions, map and it is a free app. I use it all the time!
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